Watch-bracelet connecter



March 31, 1931. C A; DOMLER 1,798,595

WATCH BRACELET CONNECTER Filed July 6, 1929 lfg sob

Patented Mar. 31, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT ori-ics CHARLES A. DOMLER, OF PROVIDENCE,

RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE' I-IADLEY COMPANY, INC., OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, A CORPORATION OF RHODE ISLAND WATCH-BRACELET CONNECTER This invention relates to fastening devices for separately connecting a bracelet end to a Wrist watch or similar article of jevvelry, and pertains more especially to improvements in attachments of the type shown and described in various forms in my copending Y applications Serial No. 348,453, filed March 20, 1929, and Serial No. 356,014 filed April 18, 1929.

The principal object of the present invention is to provide a Watch or similar article of jewelry provided with a pocket forining member having large and small openings leading to the pocket, the smaller opening receiving the end of a watch bracelet and being smaller than an anchoring member which is secured to the bracelet en d .Within the pocket, the larger opening permitting the passage of the anchoring member therethrough, and to furnish detachable means for obstructing the larger opening so that the anchor is retained within the pocket until the obstruction is removed. More specifically, the invention contemplates the provision of a connecter of the aforesaid class comprising a pocket-forming member provided with a removable pintle for pivotally connecting said member between lugs of the watch, an anchoring member detachably fastened upon the bracelet and removably seated in the pocket for retaining said end within the pocket behind a constricted opening in the pivoted member, and means carried by the anchor and engaging the pintle to prevent removal of the anchor from the pocket until the pintle is removed.

Recommended embodiments of the invention are illustrated in' the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary top view of a Watch and bracelet connected by one form of the improved attachment;

Fig. 2 is a bottom view of the ing member;

Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the bracelet and its attached anchoring member;

Fig. 4 is a bottom view showing the assembled anchoring and pocket-forming menibers prior to the insertion of thepintle memer; v v, v v

pocket-forminent 13.

. ing 21 for insertion of the bracelet end.

Fig. 5 is a side View end pulled through the nioval of the anchor;

Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the assembled connecter, taken on line 6 6 of Fig. l; and 55 Figs. 7 and 8 are bottom views of modifications.

The structure illustrated in Figs. 1 to 6 inclusive comprises a watch case 11 having spaced parallel lugs 12 on one side thereof, a G0 pocket-forming member 13 pivotally mounted between the lugs by means of a removable pintle member including a tube or barrel 14 having spring pressed pins 15 received within openings in the lugs 12, a bracelet 16 hav- 05 ing its end freely received within the member 13, and an anchoring device 17 detachably secured on said bracelet end and provided with a locking piece 18, to retain the bracelet end Within the pocket of the attach- 7@ showing the bracelet pocket to permit re- The member 13 preferably has sleeves or hooks 19 arranged yin spaced alignment and presenting a transverse opening at one end thereof, to receive the barrel. 14, and has a 7 bottom bridge 20 at its opposite end, defining a constructed slot'or longitudinal open- A larger opening 22 is provided at the bottom of the attachment 13so that the end of the 8i bracelet may be passed successivelyl through the openings 21 and 22, as shown in Fig. 5 for the application of the anchoring devices.

The anchoring means may include a spiral M Wire 23 threade'drinto the end of the bracelet 5 16, and the slotted sleeve 17 of the anchor may be slid endwise over the coiled wire when the bracelet is in the position of Fig.

5. The anchor is smaller than the bottom opening 22 but larger thanthe Vconstricted 9G opening 21, so that the bracelet may be retracted to seat its anchored end within the pocket or recess of the attachment 13 behind the slot 21. In such position (Fig. 4) the r retaining lip 18 of the anchor extends along 9J the under face of the top of the member 13 intermediate the sleeves 19 and when the barrel 14 is then slid through the sleeves, the lip is held between the barrel and the body of the attachment. Consequently, the anchor 1 17 cannot drop or be withdrawn through the opening 22 until the obstructing barrel 14 is removed.

The provision of anchor retaining means, such as the removable pintle barrel 14 which obstruets the large opening 2Q and bears against the projecting lip 18 of the anchoring member for locking the anchor with the pocket, constitutes the principal feature of this invention; and it is obvious the retaining means may take various forms without departing from the essence of the invention as delined in the appended claims. It is also apparent that the precise construction of the anchoring devices and other elements of the structure illustrated in Figs. 1 t-o 6 may be varied to suit particular purposes.

For example, Fig. 7 illustrates a leather bracelet section 24 having a tube 25 detachably held between its top and bottom plies at the end of the section, to increase the thickness o said end and constitute anchoring means for the bracelet. In this instance the retaining lip 18 or projection is carried by a wire 26 having its returned ends sprung into the opposite ends of the tube Q5, and Fig. 8 shows a flexible link bracelet ceinprising parallel tubes 27 connected by interlocking hooks 28 in a manner more fully described in my aforesaid application Serial No. 356,014', the end link 29 being thicker than the other links to constitute an anchoring member, and' said anchoring link having an integral retaining lip 18.`

From the foregoing it is apparent that the improved connecter, comprising a` pocketorming member having a transverse opening at one end receiving a pin for attaching the member to the watch, and a longitudinal opening at the opposite end receiving and retaining the anchored end of a bracelet, may be readily applied to or removed from both the watch and the bracelet, and that the anchor interconnects the bracelet end and the pin inside said member' to hold the anchor within its pocket.

l claim:

1. A connecter 'for separably attaching a bracelet end to a watch or the like, comprising a part provided with an interior pocket having large and small openii'igs leading thereto, and a bridge separating said openings, both openings extending in the sainedirection relative to said part so that a bracelet end may be passed through the small opening into the pocket and out of the pocket through the large opening, an anchor secured to the bracelet end within the pocket, the anchor being larger than the small opening and smaller than the large opening whereby the attached anchor may be inserted into the pocket through said large opening, and detachable means insertable in the large opening fer retaining the anchor in the pocket.

'2'. A connecter for separabl'y attaching a bracelet end to a watch or the like, comprising a part provided with an interior pocket having large and small openings leading thereto, and a bridge separating said openings, both openings extending in the saine direction relative to said part so that a bracelet end may be passed through the small opening into the pocket and out of the pocket through tlielarge opening, an anchor secured to the bracelet end within the pocket, the anchor being larger than the small opening and smaller than the large opening whereby the attached anchor may be inserted into the pocket through said large opening, and an obstructing member removably secured within the pocket and bearing against a portion of the anchor for preventing the passage of the anchor through the large opening until said member has been removed from the pocket.

3. A connecter Jfor separably attach-ing a bracelet end to a watch or the like, comprising apart provided with an interior pocket having closed ends and small and large openings at its side and bottom respectively, leading into the pocket, and a bridge separating said openings, both openings extending in the saine direction relative to said part so that a bracelet end may be passed through the small opening into the pocket and outof the pocket through the large opening, an anchor secured to the bracelet end within the pocket, the anchor being larger than the small opening and smaller than the-large opening whereby the attached anchor may be inserted into the pocket through said large opening, and' detachable means insertable in the large opening for retaining the anchor in the pocket.

et. A connecter for separably attaching a bracelet end to a watch or the like, comprising a pocket forming member having a removable pintle for pivotally connecting said member tothe watch, the pintle extending across the pocket formed by said member, the

member having a portion closing the ends ot' the pocket and' having small and large openings at its side and bottom leading into said pocket, a bracelet inserted through the small opening into the pocket, an anchor secured to the inserted end of the bracelet wit-hiii the pocket, the anchor being smaller than the large opening and larger than the small opening, and said pintle constituting an obstructing member adapted to engage the anchor so that the anchor is retained within the pocket until the pintle is removed.. y

5. A connecter for `separately attaching a bracelet end to a watch or the like, comprising a member provided with an interior pocket havingla-rge and smallopeningsleading` thereto, and a bridge separating said openings, beth openings extending in the same direction rela-tive tosaid member. so that a bracelet end may be passed through the small opening into the pocket and out of the pocket through the large opening, an anchor secured to the bracelet end Within the pocket7 the anchor being larger than the small opening and smaller than the large opening whereby the attaching anchor may be inserted into the pocket through said large opening, and a pintle removably mounted in the pocket and arranged pivotally to connect said member to the Watch, the pintle bearing against a portion of the anchor to retain the anchor Within the pocket until the pintle is removed.

6. A connecter for separably attaching a bracelet end to a Watch or the like, comprising a pocket-forming member having large and small openings leading into its pocket, a bracelet having its end inserted through the small opening into said pocket, an anchor secured to the bracelet end Within the pocket, the anchor being larger than the small opening to hold the bracelet behind said opening, the large opening permitting the anchored end to be passed into the pocket, and a pintle removably mounted in the pocket and arranged pivotally to connect said member to the Watch, the anchor having a projection engaging said pintle so that the anchor is retained within the pocket until the pintle is removed.

7. A connector for separably attaching a bracelet end to a Watch or the like, comprising a pocket-forming member having large and small openings leading into its pockets, a bracelet having its end inserted through the small opening into said pocket, an anchor secured to the bracelet end Within the pocket, the anchor being larger than the small opening to hold the bracelet behind said opening7 the large opening permitting the anchored end to be passed into the pocket, a barrel removably mounted Within the pocket and having spring-pressed pins at its opposite ends for pivotally connecting said member to the Watch, and a retaining lip carried by the anchor and normally bearing against said barrel to retain the anchor Within the pocket.

8. In combination With a Watch having a pair of spaced parallel lugs at its side, a pocket-forming member having sleeve portions arranged in spaced alignment at one end thereof and having a constricted opening at its opposite end leading into its pocket, the bottom of the member being substantially open and providing a large opening leading to said pocket, a barrel slidably received Within said sleeves and having end pins for separably pivoting the said member between the lugs of the Watch, a bracelet having its end inserted through the constricted opening, an anchor detachably secured to said end in said pocket, the anchor being larger than the constricted opening and smaller than the large opening, and a retaining lip projecting from the anchor and extending over said barrel intermediate said sleeves to hold the anchor Within the pocket until the barrel is removed. Signed by me at Providence, Rhode Island, this 27 th day of June 1929.

CHARLES A. DOM'LER. 

